Lindsey Tucker currently works as a strategic consultant to the Health Equity Compact, supporting their policy goals to advance health equity in Massachusetts, specifically by eliminating systemic barriers and creating new structures and processes that will lead to equitable healthcare and health outcomes for all in Massachusetts. Previously Ms. Tucker served as Associate Commissioner at the  Massachusetts Department of Public Health overseeing the Department’s Bureaus of Community Health and Prevention, Family Health and Nutrition, and Environmental Health as well as the Office of Problem Gambling. In her first two years with the Department, she oversaw DPH’s health care regulatory oversight work and the Office of Health Equity as well as the communications, policy, and legislative affairs teams. Lindsey is the former Principal Assistant to the Commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access, which is responsible for the state’s publicly funded health care programs and reform efforts, including Medicaid and the health insurance marketplace. Also in Vermont, she was the founding chief executive of Vermont Health Connect (VHC), Vermont’s state operated health insurance marketplace. Prior to her years in Vermont, Lindsey worked on the implementation of health reform in Massachusetts at Health Care For All and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.

Lindsey has a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health and a BA from Yale College.